The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy
I broke one of my personal reading rules with this book – always read a series in order. The Unfamiliar Garden is book two in The Comet Cycle…which, in my defense, I didn’t realize when I started reading it. But luckily for me, the stories in the Comet Cycle seem to be more interrelated than … [Read more]
Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy by Jonathan Hill
I finished this book in a day, starting at the dentist, finishing as I enjoyed some cold pizza (shh don’t tell my dentist) from dinner, and it became a new favorite. Granted, Tales of a Seventh-Grade Lizard Boy might not be an OMG BEST BOOK EVER, but I really enjoyed how we take the being different … [Read more]
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook
CBR 14 Bingo: Bird Birds populate the landscape of this book - and Eliza's father is prophesied to be found in a white place surrounded by many birds. When Eliza's father's ship returns from a pearling expedition without him, everyone but her seems to accept that he is dead. But Eliza is certain … [Read more]
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
What fools these mortals be! And also what dicks these immortals be, well Puck and Oberon at least. In this Shakespeare comedy, we find four young Athenian nobles trying to sort out their possible marriages. Their parents are making wrong choices or choices that only adhere to the parent's … [Read more]
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
The Penelopiad - 4/5 This short book was written as part of a mythology fiction project in the early 00s where contemporary writers took on classic myths. Karen Armstrong wrote an overall history of mytholy, David Grossman wrote about Samson and Delilah, AS Byatt wrote about Ragnorok. As she did … [Read more]
Nubia: Real One by L. L. McKinney
Overall, Nubia: Real One is a modern telling of the superhero genre with concerns for today. While the art was not a hundred percent “my thing" it is clever and fits the tone of the story. Robyn Smith created illustrations that are classical graphic novel with comic overtones and works as both a … [Read more]
